West African Oral Storytelling
An individual in West African culture who passes down stories, music, and history through oral narratives.
What is a griot?
Who is Anansi?
The route from West Africa to the United States, transporting slaves across the ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
Oral slave songs could be used for these purposes (name, at least, two).
What is working, connecting spiritually, or escaping?
Sojourner Truth's original name.
A harp-like instrument a griot musician might play.
What is a kora?
Anansi is this type of arachnoid.
What is a spider?
Sometimes, slaves referred to this body of water as "the river."
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This woman used songs to help slaves escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Sojourner Truth's change in name came after this.
What is her religious conversion?
A percussion instrument a griot musician might play.
What is a drum?
As an unpredictable character, Anansi is often called this.
What is a trickster figure?
The route between Europe, Africa, South America, and North America in which slaves and goods were traded.
What is the Triangle Slave Route?
The lyrics "swing, low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home" often meant this.
What is Tubman was coming to gather slaves for escape?
Sojourner Truth's post-slavery profession.
What is itinerant preacher?
How griots were determined in centuries past.
What is passing down the position through families or castes.
It is speculated that oral recipes and food seeds, like the seed of this vegetable used for stews, might have been transported secretly by slaves over the Middle Passage.
What is okra?
The song "Go Down, Moses" used this Biblical reference to emphasize slaves' freedom.
The purpose of Truth's extemporaneous speech.
What is advocate for the rights of women, especially her rights as an African American woman?
How griots are determined in contemporary times.
What is choosing the profession of griot for yourself?
The drawing of compactly arranged slaves in a ship's hull is of this vessel.
What is the Brooke's Slave Ship?
What is Tubman would meet them there, and dogs could not pick up human scents in water?
Who are Gage and Robinson?